It was fast-paced, well acted, and full of action and humor as well as some really great drama between interesting, fleshed-out characters.

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These songs make for a not-bad record, but it's largely the similarities to the books, their black humor and oblique sense of populism, that make The Tragic Treasury an interesting listen.

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